Word: americanize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highest office in a city. From a comparatively cool discussion of issues, the campaign has been altered to a furious contest of mud-slinging, in which party, racial, and religious lines are erased, and the struggle is one of individual hatreds. To any one raised in the usual American atmosphere of optimistic trust that a democracy chooses the best men for its offices, there is a terrific shock in the spectacle now being played in Boston. One candidate remarks "The people of Boston have elected some peculiar figures in the past but they have never elected a consummate liar": another...
...markets of the world. Moreover, every step toward stability and general betterment on her part strengthens the demand of her peoples for the raw materials and the luxury products of the "newer" lands (newer economically) of Latin America and the Far East. This demand is steadily making the Latin Americans and the Asiatics richer and more avid of the good things of life, of the comforts so many of which we can supply so readily and profitably. Consequently, every acceleration of European demand for the raw materials, exotic fruits, luxuries, and semiluxuries, produced by these far-off lands, will react...
...less, as time goes on, about the hostility of Europe to the United States. It is even intimated from time to time that this alleged hostility affects trade between the two continents. If this were true, we would recognize this bad feeling in the reduction of the sale of American wares, which are readily identified as such by markings and general appearances--our motor cars, safety razors, electrical devices, typewriters and similar finished manufactures which, sold as they are under trade names, are conspicuously American. Has Europe allowed her supposed enmity to limit her purchase of these...
...Wygant, U. S. N., Professor of Naval Science and Tactics at Harvard, and the Rev. Prescott Evarts, Rector of Christ Church, Protestant Episcopal, Cambridge, replied yesterday to the remark made recently by the Rt. Rev. Paul Jones, now acting Episcopal Bishop of Southern Ohio, that the display of American flags in public school rooms was "a dangerous fetish worship which promotes thoughts of war among school children...
...American flag is the symbol of something outside of ourselves that is greater than we are. It stands for an idea. It stands for justice and liberty--the right of every man to a chance to rise as high in this world as his character and ability will permit, and as such is entitled to the respect and affection of all Americans...